A Service of Evensong celebrating
William Byrd
on the 400th anniversary
of his death
Sunday 2nd July 2023
St. Peter St. Paul
Stondon Massey 3pm
Please
stand, as you are able, at the entrance of the ministers.
All people that on
earth do dwell,
William Kethe
(d. 1594)
DEARLY beloved
brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess
our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke
them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with
an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness
of the same …Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to
accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly
grace, saying after me:
A general Confession to
be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister, all sitting or kneeling.
ALMIGHTY
and most merciful Father, We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost
sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We
have offended against thy holy laws, We have left undone those things which we
ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have
done … Amen.
The
Absolution or Remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest
ALMIGHTY God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner … that the
rest of our life hereafter may be pure, and holy; so that at the last we may
come to his eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Then
the Minister lead the people in the Lord’s prayer
OUR
Father, which art in heaven …
Priest. O Lord, open thou our lips.
Answer.
And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Priest. O God, make speed to save us.
Answer O Lord, make haste to help us.
Here,
all standing up, the Priest shall say,
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall
be, world without end. Amen.
Priest. Praise ye the Lord.
Answer. The Lord's Name be praised.
PSALM 8
The Stondon Singers - William
Byrd: Kyrie. Mass for 4 voices.
The first reading
Isaiah 64:1-12
Reader This is the Word of the Lord.
All Thanks be to God.
The Second reading
Matthew 6: 25-34
Reader This is the Word of the Lord.
All Thanks be to God.
Stondon Singers - William
Byrd: Agnus Dei: Mass for 4 voices
I BELIEVE in
God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth …
Minister. The Lord be
with you.
Answer And with thy spirit.
Then the
Priest standing up shall say,
Priest. O Lord, shew
thy mercy upon us.
Answer. And grant us thy salvation
Priest. O Lord, save
the King.
Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon
thee.
Priest. Endue
thy Ministers with righteousness.
Answer. And make thy chosen people joyful.
Priest. O Lord, save
thy people.
Answer .And bless thine inheritance.
Priest. Give peace
in our time, O Lord.
Answer. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
Priest. O God, make
clean our hearts within us.
Answer. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.
Then shall
follow three Collects: The first of the day: The second for Peace: The third
for Aid against all Perils, as hereafter followeth: which two last Collects
shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration.
The Second
Collect at Evening Prayer
The Third
Collect, for Aid against all Perils
A Prayer for
the King's Majesty.
A Prayer for
the Royal Family.
A Prayer for
the Clergy and People.
A Prayer of
Saint Chrysostom.
Care
for thy soul as thing of greatest price,
Made
to the end to taste of power divine,
Devoid
of guilt, abhorring sin and vice,
Apt
by God’s grace to virtue to incline.
Care
for it so as by thy retchless train
It
be not brought to taste eternal pain.
Care
for thy corse, but chiefly for soul’s sake;
Cut
off excess, sustaining food is best;
To
vanquish pride but comely clothing take;
Seek
after skill, deep ignorance detest.
Care
so, I say, the flesh to feed and clothe
That
thou harm not thy soul and body both.
Care
for the world to do thy body right;
Rack
not thy wit to win thy wicked ways;
Seek
not to oppress the weak by wrongful might;
To
pay thy due do banish all delays.
Care
to dispend according to thy store,
And
in like sort be mindful of the poor.
Care
for thy soul, as for thy chiefest stay;
Care
for thy body for thy soul’s avail;
Care
for the world for body’s help alway;
Care
yet but so as virtue may prevail.
Care
in such sort that thou be sure of this:
Care
keep thee not from heaven and heavenly bliss.
William Byrd
The
Stondon Singers - William Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus
2 Corinthians 13.
THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of
God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.
For all the
saints who from their labours rest …
William Walsham Howe 1823-1897
Andrew
Smith – A “vote of thanks”
The
Service will be followed by resfreshments.
